linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 18/19] RDMA/hw/qib/qib_user_pages: remove FOLL

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Date:   Mon,  7 Nov 2022 17:17:39 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, etnaviv@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
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        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...nelisnetworks.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 18/19] RDMA/hw/qib/qib_user_pages: remove FOLL_FORCE usage

FOLL_FORCE is really only for debugger access. As we unpin the pinned pages
using unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(true), the assumption is that all these
pages are writable.

FOLL_FORCE in this case seems to be a legacy leftover. Let's just remove
it.

Cc: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...nelisnetworks.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c
index f4b5f05058e4..f693bc753b6b 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ int qib_get_user_pages(unsigned long start_page, size_t num_pages,
 	for (got = 0; got < num_pages; got += ret) {
 		ret = pin_user_pages(start_page + got * PAGE_SIZE,
 				     num_pages - got,
-				     FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_FORCE,
+				     FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_WRITE,
 				     p + got, NULL);
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
-- 
2.38.1